UCS Fundamentals. Conor Murphy Partner Systems Engineer. #clmel BRKCOM PDF Free Download

UCS Fundamentals Conor Murphy Partner Systems Engineer #clmel

Abstract This session provides an introduction to Cisco UCS. It does not assume previous UCS familiarity and is intended as a basic introduction for server, LAN and SAN administrators. This session will offer an overview of the UCS System Architecture, including the components which make up UCS, their purpose, how they connect and many of the technical innovations that UCS delivers. = Reference Slide 3

Complementary UCS Sessions Check out www.ciscolive.com for previous session presentations and videos BRKCOM-2003 BRKCOM-2017 BRKCOM-2015 VMware BRKCOM-2640 Integration BRKCOM-2602 BRKCOM-2601 BRKCOM-3002 UCS Networking Deep Dive UCS Systems Management Deep Dive with UCS Foundational Software Cisco UCS Network Performance Optimisation and Best Practices for UCS C-Series Deployment Options, Best Practice and UCSM Next Generation Computing Architectures for Cloud Scale Applications Hyper-Converged Computing UCS Performance Troubleshooting 4

Agenda UCS Overview Components Classic UCS blade and rack servers Connectivity Compute, LAN, SAN Key Features Scaling with Single Point of Management UCS Service Profiles Logical Building Blocks UCS XML API and Other Hidden Gems New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini UCS M-Series Resources 5

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Single Point of Management Logical Building Blocks Stateless Computing (Service Profiles) 6

UCS Components LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect UCS Chassis Heartbeat link (No Data) 7

UCS Components LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect UCS Chassis Heartbeat link (No Data) IO Module 8

UCS Components LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect 4 backplane lanes to each half width blade slot UCS Chassis IO Module Heartbeat link (No Data) 9

UCS Components LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect 4 backplane lanes to each half width blade slot UCS Chassis IO Module Heartbeat link (No Data) 10

UCS Components Fabric Interconnect Cisco VIC IO Module Heartbeat link (No Data) UCS Blade 11

UCS Components Fabric Interconnects LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect UCS Chassis Heartbeat link (No Data) 12

UCS Components Fabric Interconnects 6248UP UCSM NX-OS 32 x Fixed ports: 1/10 GE or 1/2/4/8 FC Expansion Module (GEM) Fabric Interconnect Cluster Connectivity Out of Band Mgmt 10/100/1000 Front Panel Console Fan Module Fan Module Power Entry Power Entry 13

UCS Components 5108 Chassis LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect UCS Chassis Heartbeat link (No Data) 14

UCS Components 5108 Chassis 6RU Chassis 32 deep Passive backplane 8 half width blades, 4 full width or a mix of both

UCS Components IO Modules LAN MGMT SAN Fabric Interconnect 4 KR lanes to each half width blade slot UCS Chassis IO Module Heartbeat link (No Data) 16

UCS Components IOM Modules A IOM (sometimes called Fabric Extender ) provides 1 interface for internal management Internal sever facing links (HIF) External fabric links (NIF) 2204XP 40G to the network 80G to the host redundant Latency lowered to 0.5us within IOM 2208XP 80G to the network 160G to the host redundant Latency lowered to 0.5us within IOM 17 Not a traditional chassis switch!

UCS Components Cable for bandwidth, not for protocol 2x 1 Link 20 Gbps per Chassis 2x 2 Link 40 Gbps per Chassis 2x 4 Link 80 Gbps per Chassis 2x 8 Links 160 Gbps per Chassis 18

UCS Components C-Series Rack Integration Through FEX Fabric Interconnect Fabric Extender vnic vnic vhba vhba CIMC Mgmt BRKCOM-2010 - C-Series UCSM Integration Best Practices 19

UCS Components Blade and Rack Servers Fabric Interconnect Cisco VIC IO Module Heartbeat link (No Data) UCS Blade 20

UCS Components UCS Blade Servers B22 M3 B200 M3 B200 M4 B230 M2 B420 M3 B440 M2 B260 M4 B460 M4 Blade Size Half-Width Half-Width Half-Width Half-Width Full-Width Full-Width Full-Width CPU E5-2400 v2 and E5-2400 E5-2600 v2 and E5-2600 E5-2600v3 E7-2800/8800 E5-4600 v2 and E5-4600 E7-4800/8800 E7-2800/4800/8800 v2 Max Cores 20 24 36 20 48 40 30 60 DIMM slots 12 DDR3 24 DDR3 24 DDR4 32 DDR3 48 DDR3 32 DDR3 48 96 Double-High, Full-Width E7-4800/8800 v2 Max memory 384 GB* 768 GB 768GB 512 GB 1.5 TB 1 TB 1.5 TB (32 GB) 3 TB (64 GB)* 3 TB (32 GB) 6 TB (64 GB)* Local disk 2 x 2.5 2 x 2.5 2 x 2.5 2 x SSD 4 x 2.5 4 x 2.5 2 x 2.5 4 x 2.5 IO throughput Dual 40Gb/s Dual 40Gb/s Dual 40Gb/s Dual 40Gb/s Dual 80Gb/s Dual 80Gb/s Dual 80Gb/s Dual 160Gb/s Mezz slots 2 2 2 1 3 2 3 6

UCS Components UCS Rack Servers C22 M3 C24 M3 C220 M3 C220 M4 C240 M3 C240 M4 C260 M2 C420 M3 C460 M2 C460 M4 RU 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 4 CPU E5-2400 v2 and E5-2400 E5-2400 v2 and E5-2400 E5-2600 v2 and E5-2600 E5-2600v3 E5-2600 v2 and E5-2600 E5-2600v3 E7-2800/8800 E5-4600 E7-4800/8800 E7-4800/8800 v2 Max Cores 20 20 24 36 24 36 20 32 40 60 DIMMs 12 12 16 24 DDR4 24 24 DDR4 32 48 64 96 Max GB 384 GB* 384 GB* 512 GB 512GB 768 GB 768GB 1 TB 1.5 TB 2 TB 3 TB (32 GB) 6 TB (64 GB)* Disk 8 x 2.5 or 4 x 3.5 24 x 2.5 or 12 x 3.5 8 x 2.5 or 4 x 3.5 8 SFF or 4 LFF 24 x 2.5 or 12 x 3.5 26 SFF or 14 LFF LoM 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 4 x 1Gb 2 x1gb 16 x 2.5 or 32 x SSD 2 x 1Gb + 2 x 10Gb 16 x 2.5 12 x 2.5 12 x 2.5 2 x 10Gb 2 x 1Gb + 2 x 10Gb 2 x 1Gb + 2 x 10Gb PCIe Slots 2 x PCIe 3.0 5 x PCIe 3.0 2 x PCIe 3.0 2 x PCIe 3.0 5 x PCIe 3.0 6 x PCIe 3.0 5 x PCIe 2.0 7 x PCIe 3.0 10 x PCIe 2.0 10 x PCIe 3.0

UCS Components Cisco Virtual Interface Card Physical Network Stateless computing: 256 PCIe devices (NICs or HBAs) Host Connectivity: PCIe Gen3 Physical 10G Uplink Port Physical 10G Uplink Port Network Connectivity: Multiple Physical 10Gb, 40Gb ready vfc vfc veth veth veth veth vhba vhba vnic vnic vnic vnic 10 GE Ethernet 256 PCIe devices Network Interface Virtualisation

UCS Components Blade VIC s 3rd Generation VIC 1340 mlom optional port expander card VIC 1380 Mezz 2nd Generation VIC 1240 optional port expander card VIC 1280

UCS Components Rack VIC s 3rd Gen VIC 1385 Dual Port 40Gb QSFP PCIe VIC 1285 40Gb QSFP 2nd Gen VIC 1285 Dual Port 40Gb QSFP PCIe VIC 1225 Dual Port SFP+ PCIe VIC 1225T Dual Port 10GBaseT PCIe VIC 1227 Dual Port SFP+ mlom VIC 1227T Dual Port 10GBaseT mlom VIC 1225 10Gb SFP+ VIC 1225T 10Gb RJ-45 VIC 1227 10Gb SFP+ mlom

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ID STAT CISCO UCS 6296UP ID STAT 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 UCS Components Product Names and Numbers UCS Fabric Interconnect UCS 6248UP 1RU 32 unified base ports and 1 expansion slot Line rate 960Gbps UCS Fabric Interconnect UCS Fabric Interconnect UCS 6296UP 2RU 48 unified base ports and 3 expansion slots Line rate 1920 Gbps UCS Fabric Extender UCS IO Module (IOM) 2204 or 2208 4 or 8 10GbE fabric links (to Fabric Interconnect) Up to 32 10GbE server links (to servers) Nexus 2232PP 8 10GbE fabric links (to Fabric Interconnect) 32 10GbE server links (to servers) Blade/Rack/Modular servers B-Series Blade Half width, full width C-Series Rack 2 socket, 4 socket M-Series Modular Cartridge based UCS Components Virtual Interface Cards VIC 1340 VIC 1380 VIC 1385 Accessories nvidia GPUs Flash storage FusionIO/LSI 26

Agenda UCS Overview Components Traditional blade and rack servers Basic Connectivity Compute, LAN, SAN Key Features Scaling with Single Point of Management UCS Service Profiles Logical Building Blocks UCS XML API and Other Hidden Gems New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini UCS M-Series Resources 27

UCS Connectivity and Networking In Depth BRKCOM 2003 UCS Networking Deepdive Tech Specs E.g. B200 M4 http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products /collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b- series-blade-servers/b200m4- specsheet.pdf

Connectivity SAN UCS Storage Connectivity Summary iscsi/nfs LAN Cloud SAN Switch LAN Switch iscsi/nfs SAN FC/FCoE STORAGE Direct Connect FC/FCoE STORAGE 29

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management and Scaling UCS Manager Single Point of Management UCSM NXOS UCSM NXOS UCS DOMAIN

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management and Scaling UCSM UCSM UCSM UCSM Add One UCS Blade Chassis Add One UCS Blade Chassis Add One UCS Blade Chassis 32

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management Through Browser Java Client

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management Equipment 34

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management Equipment Server Inventory

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management Equipment Fabric Interconnects

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management Servers

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management LAN Connectivity

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management SAN Connectivity

UCS Key Features Single Point of Management Central Administration

42 UCS Key Features Traditional Approach SAN LAN NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN VLAN tagging FC fabrics FC boot parameters FC zoning Number of vnics Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vhbas QoS Call home Org & sub orgs Server pools Statistic thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settings BIOS settings Netflow

43 UCS Key Features UCS Stateless Computing SAN LAN NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN VLAN tagging FC fabrics FC boot parameters FC zoning Number of vnics Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vhbas QoS Call home Org & sub orgs Server pools Statistic thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settings BIOS settings Netflow

44 UCS Key Features UCS Stateless Computing SAN LAN NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN VLAN tagging FC fabrics FC boot parameters FC zoning Number of vnics Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vhbas QoS Call home Org & sub orgs Server pools Statistic thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settings BIOS settings Netflow

45 UCS Key Features UCS Stateless Computing SAN LAN NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN VLAN tagging FC fabrics FC boot parameters FC zoning Number of vnics Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vhbas QoS Call home Org & sub orgs Server pools Statistic thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settings BIOS settings Netflow

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks UCS Stateless Computing 4. Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05 Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06 Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07 Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN 3. Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05 Firmware 2.1 Boot:SAN Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06 Firmware 2.1 Boot:SAN Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07 Firmware 2.1 Boot:SAN 2. Templates - Service Profile MAC : Derived WWN: Derived Firmware 2.1 2.2 Boot:SAN 1. Pools UUID MAC WWNN / WWPN Policies Boot Devices/Order Host F/W 46 QoS Templates vnics vhbas

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Storing The ConfigHardware/Software Abstraction SP 1 SP 2 Templates SP 3 Pools Policies Template All pools, policies, templates, service profiles stored as XML representation on Fabric Interconnects. Only applied to physical compute platform when associated 47

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Deploying Servers in 4 Easy Steps 1. Create the pools and policies 2. Build a template 3. Create the logical servers (Services Profiles) 4. Associate logical servers to physical hardware

Pools UUID MAC WWNN / WWPN Policies Boot Devices/Order Host F/W 49 QoS Templates vnics vhbas Step 1 Create The Pools and Policies

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Create Pools and Policies Sample BIOS Policy Other pools and policies include: Firmware policy Boot order policy Ethernet interface policy FC interface policy QoS policy Server pool WWN pool MAC pool

Templates - Service Profile MAC : Derived WWN: Derived Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Step 2 Build A Server Group Template

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Service Profile Template

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Service Profile Template What VLANs, MAC How address, many interfaces QoS policies do do I my servers require require? on my server interfaces?

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Service Profile Template

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Service Profile Template Our finished template ready to deploy servers?

Service Profile 1 Service Profile 2 Service Profile n MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05 Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06 Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07 Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Template - Service Profile MAC : Derived Firmware 2.2 WWN: Derived Boot:SAN Step 3 Create The Logical Servers (Service Profiles)

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server How Many Servers Do We Need?

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Our Logical Server Confirming the config

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Our Logical Server

Service Profile Service Profile Service Profile MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07 Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Step 4 Associate To Hardware

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Associating Service Profile To Hardware

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Accessing The Server - KVM

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems - Programmatic interface 1 Custom applications Python, Powershell SSH Out of the box client Third party management tools Self Serve portals Management Tools Auditing Tools Direct UCS CLI UCS GUI 3 rd Party Customer XML API System Status Physical Inventory Logical Inventory 67

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Developer Network 2 https://developer.cisco.com/site/ucsdev-center/documentation/

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems UCS Platform Emulator http://communities.cisco.com/ucspe 3 Full featured emulator for the UCS Manager Installs as a Virtual Machine Provides complete support for all XML API calls Object Browser to peruse the UCSM model Import & replicate existing live UCS Manager physical inventory Share saved physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators Drag-n-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory 69

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Simple Backup 4

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Simple Backup

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Simple Backup Conors-AllConfig.xml

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Firmware Visibility 5

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Firmware Visibility

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Firmware Auto-install

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Unified Ports 6 Native Fibre Channel Benefits Eth Simplify switch purchase - remove ports ratio guess work Increase design flexibility Remove specific protocol bandwidth bottlenecks FC Lossless Ethernet: 1/10GbE, FCoE, iscsi, NAS Use-cases Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on business needs Service can be adjusted based on the demand for specific traffic 76

UCS Key Features XML API and Other Hidden Gems Unified Ports Use slider to configure unified ports Ethernet on the left Fibre Channel on the right

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini Scale up to 20 Servers New Form Factor Fabric Interconnects 6324 Traditional Fabric Interconnects Same Great Features Single Point of Management Logical Building Blocks Hardware/Software Abstraction (Service Profiles)

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini FI 6324 1x40G QSFP+ Eth/FCoE only 4x10G break out or 1x40G (Post FCS) Scalability port Licensed Port 2 nd Chassis (post-fcs) Direct-attached C-series, no FEX Appliance Port FCoE Storage Port USB Port Firmware upgrades Management Port 10/100/1000 Mbps 4 x10g SFP+ Unified Ports Uplink (Eth/FC/FCOE) Server Direct-attached only, no FEX Appliance port FC/FCoE Storage Port Supports 1G or 10G Console Port

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini Software Feature Support Feature Parity with 2.2(1b) B200 M3 Blade Only End Host Mode NIV VLAN QoS SPAN (Ethernet only) FC/FCOE Direct Attach Storage Ports FC Switch Mode Only VMFEX (SCVMM) Features not supported at FCS PVLAN LACP enhancement (fast rate and suspend-individual-links) Netflow+ FC Uplink (NPV) Port Security FC SPAN destination

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini Storage Connectivity LAN Upstream Switch - via Ethernet switches or FC, FCoE iscsi or NAS Storage Ethernet Switches Direct attached - via FC or FCoE, NAS or iscsi 16 Blade UCS Mini Configuration FC or FCoE Storage FC, FCoE, NAS or iscsi Appliance Currently no NPV support

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini CHOICE - A Form Factor Specific To Your Needs More than 20 Servers + IO Modules + UCS 5108 Chassis Supports existing and future blades 6248 or 6296 Fabric Fabric Interconnects Less than 20 Servers + 6324 Fabric Interconnect UCS 5108 Chassis Supports existing and future blades

New UCS Form Factors UCS M-Series Cloud-Scale Inverts Computing Architecture Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale SCM ERP/Financial Legacy CRM Email Online Content Gaming Mobile IoT E-Commerce Server Single Server Single Application APP Hypervisor Many Applications Many Servers

New UCS Form Factors UCS M-Series Architecture Redundant power supplies 2 x 40Gb uplinks 4 x Local disks CMC Shared Resources Cartridge Cartridge Cartridge Cartridge Cartridge Cartridge Cartridge Cartridge Compute Resources

New UCS Form Factors UCS M-Series UCS M-Series Modular Servers 8 Compute cartridges Two Independent Intel Xeon E3 Servers per cartridge No adapters or HDDs M-Series at a glance With a 2RU Form Factor, the maximums are; 16 Hosts independent hosts 64 physical cores 512GB RAM Shared HDDs Shared Network Peripherals Network and storage resources UCSM Integration for Scale Up

New UCS Form Factors UCS M-Series UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCSM Integrated 10 Gb 62xx Fabric Interconnects Rack Capacity Chassis 20 Servers 320 Cores 1280 Memory 10TB Storage 128TB 40 Gb ports

New UCS Form Factors UCS M-Series Target Verticals Software Built for the Cloud Grid Computing Magnitude and elasticity of cloud offerings demand horizontal scaling Operational scale dictates application level resilience Distributed task based computing Each task is a repeated stateless or soft state process Cloud Service Providers IaaS SaaS Online Content Providers Gaming Enterprise On premise Cloud Scale Computing: Operational Intelligence Content management Off premise: SaaS Enterprise and Public Sector Financial modelling Electronic design automation (EDA) Scientific simulations

New UCS Form Factors UCS M-Series In-depth session

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Choice of Form Factor Single Point of Management Firmware Autoinstall UCS Platform Emulator Blade, Rack or Cartridge Unified Ports XML API Simple Backup Multi-Tenanted Scale With Ease Logical Building Blocks Unified Fabric Hardware/Software Abstraction (Service Profiles) 91

Resources UCS Platform Emulator http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/ucsemulatordownload UCS Quick Start Guide http://www.cisco.com/en/us/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10281/whitepaper_c11-697337.html C-Series Rack Server Adapter Comparison http://www.cisco.com/en/us/prod/ps10265/ps10493/c_series_net_adapter.html Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200 Series Configuration Limits for Cisco UCS Manager, Release 2.2 http://www.cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/configuration_limits/2.2/b_ucs_configuration_limits_2_2.html Storage Best Practices http://www.cisco.com/en/us/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10276/whitepaper_c11-702584.html Storage Interoperability Matrix http://www.cisco.com/en/us/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/matrix8.html Storage Interoperability http://www.cisco.com/en/us/prod/ps10265/interoperability.html#~storage 93

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Reference Slides #clmel

UCS Components Fabric Interconnects FI6248UP Flexibility Product Features and Specs UCS 6120XP UCS 6140XP UCS 6248UP UCS 6296UP Switch Fabric Throughput 520 Gbps 1.04 Tbps 960 Gbps 1.92 Tbps Scalability Multipurpose Switch Footprint 1RU 2RU 1RU 2RU 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port Density 8 16 48 96 10 Gigabit Ethernet Port Density 26 52 48 96 8G Native FC Port Density 6 12 48 96 Port-to-Port Latency 3.2us 3.2us 2.0us 2.0us Active # of VLANs 982 982 2000 2000 BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY AND FORWARD COMPATIBILITY 99

UCS Components Cable for bandwidth, not for protocol

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Accessing The Server Automatic Mapping - vmedia

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Service Profile Template

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Accessing The Server Automatic Mapping - vmedia

UCS Key Features Logical Building Blocks Building A Server Pre-provision Storage

Connectivity Components and LAN UCS Ports Defined UCSM NXOS IO Module IO Module BIF (Border) SIF (Server/Fabric) NIF (Network) HIF (Host) UIF (Uplink - DCE) VIF (Virtual) 109

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini Optics Transceiver Type Speed Cable Type Distance QSFP-4SFP10G 40G DAC 1, 3, 5m QSFP-4X10G-AC 40G DAC 7, 10m QSFP to 4 Copper Direct Attach SFP+ SFP SFP FC SFP-10G-SR SFP-10G-SR-X 10G MMF 300m SFP-H10GB-CU 10G DAC 1, 3, 5m SFP-H10GB-AC 10G DAC 7, 10m GLC-T GLC-GE-T 1G Cat5 100m GLC-LH-SM 1G SMF 10Km GLC-SX-MM 1G MMF 1Km DS-SFP-FC (DS-SFP-FC4G-SW, DS-SFP-FC8G-SW) 4, 8G MMF 150m/380m * FCOE supported distance is 100m

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini Server and Adapter Support Hardware Supported Model Timeline Blade B200M3 (Ivy Bridge) Available C220M3 (Ivy Bridge) Available Rack C240M3 (Ivy Bridge) Available Hardware Supported Model Timeline Adaptors VIC1240 Port Expander for VIC1240 VIC1280 Fusion-IO 365GB Fusion-IO 785GB Available Available Available Available Available

New UCS Form Factors UCS Mini Storage Support Protocol Vendor NetApp FAS iscsi EMC VNX Nimble Invicta NetApp FAS Fibre Channel UCS Invicta EMC VNX

UCS Fundamentals. Conor Murphy Partner Systems Engineer. #clmel BRKCOM-1001